Most travelers automatically search for round-trip tickets (e.g., London to Bangkok and back to London). However, utilizing multi-city and open-jaw routing on Qatar Airways is one of the most powerful insider strategies to see multiple destinations while frequently paying less than a traditional return flight.
What Is an Open-Jaw Flight?
An open-jaw ticket allows you to fly into one city and depart from another, or depart from one airport and return to a different one. For example:
- Leg 1: Fly London Heathrow (LHR) → Bangkok (BKK) via Doha.
- Travel overland or via budget regional flight through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
- Leg 2: Fly Hanoi (HAN) → London Heathrow (LHR) via Doha.
Why Open-Jaw Saves Time and Money
If you booked a standard round-trip to Bangkok, you would be forced to spend money and an entire vacation day traveling all the way back to Bangkok just to catch your return flight home. An open-jaw ticket eliminates the backtracking cost and airport transit headaches.
How to Book Open-Jaw on Qatar Airways
- Navigate to the flight booking search on QatarAirways.com.
- Select the “Multi-city” radio button rather than “Return”.
- Add Flight 1 (Origin to Destination A) and select your date.
- Add Flight 2 (Destination B to Return Origin) and select your return date.
- Search fares. Qatar Airways calculates the tariff based on half of each round-trip fare bucket, avoiding costly one-way penalty surcharges.
